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  1. Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care | Pediatric and Adult Health Track

    Introduction to Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care - In this module, participants will learn about the nature and implications of integrated care, and will become fluent in the key terms that have come to describe it. Topics will include key public policies affecting the integrated care movement, including the Affordable Care Act; successful models of integrated care; population health management and health disparities; and ethical challenges and opportunities in integrated care. The transition to integrated care will be framed as a paradigm shift from disease-oriented to recovery-oriented service delivery, resulting in new opportunities and challenges, and direct implications for consumers and their families.

    Integrated Health Systems and Implementation - In this module, participants will obtain knowledge and skills related to the implementation of integrated care services. Implementation of integrated team-based collaborative care presents challenges and opportunities for providers and managers, with significant implications for access to care and patient satisfaction. Topics include basics of integrated health implementation; telepsychiatric consultation; culturally responsive practice; Patient Centered Medical Home recognition; oral health for collaborative care; and provider mindfulness and self-care.

    Foundations of Pediatric Integrated Health Care - Although "pediatrics" describes the age range from birth through 18 years of age, children develop through a number of distinct developmental, psychological, and social stages. The Pediatric track explores how to address the most common issues of these stages using a pediatric integrated health model of care. Topics include an introduction to the model, the role of the pediatric behavioral health consultant, pediatric social determinants of health, and interventions in the medical setting.

    Pediatric Interventions - As the health care system is transformed from non-integrated to integrated, many services and interventions can be provided directly to the pediatric population as well as their parents in the medical clinic. Although many clinicians know typical child and adolescent diagnoses from a clinical perspective, this module helps participants develop an integrated understanding of typical topics that may present in the medical setting. Topics include ADHD, pediatric asthma, DD-autism, anxiety, depression, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences.

    Adolescence - Many adolescents are required to attend at least one physician appointment a year, presenting an annual opportunity to engage them in management of their own health care and in the detection and early intervention of risky behaviors which can have lifelong consequences. Adolescents can be best engaged in self-management when their unique social, developmental, physical and psychological needs are considered. Topics include adolescent-centered medical homes, adolescent sexual health, substance abuse, suicide, eating disorders, and school-based health centers.

    Bidirectional Integrated Care - In this module, participants will build upon their knowledge of integrated care implementation in adult healthcare settings. Topics will include the Wagner Chronic Care Model; collaborative care; stepped care; care coordination; and billing in integrated health environments. Participants will learn the "care coordination standard" for integrated primary care and discover new roles in primary care for the behavioral health consultant.

    Assessment in Integrated Care
    Initial and follow-up assessments play a critical role in effective integrated care. This course addresses free-form interviews such as biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment, structured screening tools such as the PHQ-9 and the AUDIT-C, and mixed assessment and intervention models such as SBIRT. The strengths, weaknesses, benefits, and limitations of common assessment tools in integrated health environments are reviewed.

    Behavioral Intervention in Integrated Care
    Common elements often form the basis of evidence-based behavioral health interventions. This course teaches and reviews behavioral intervention skills relevant to everyday clinical practice across disciplines and practice settings. Brief interventions around motivational enhancement, psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, and values-based behavior change can help promote adaptive health behaviors in support of improved wellness. There is a strong emphasis on feasible brief interventions in a fast-paced clinical context and on adapting interventions to each consumer's unique biopsychosocial, socioeconomic, and cultural context.

    Biomedical Aspects of Integrated Care
    Many presenting medical problems are deeply influenced by health behaviors, and a growing body of evidence suggests that mental health consumers, especially those with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders, are faced with a broad range of physical health disparities. In this module, participants will deepen their understanding of bidirectional integrated care for medical issues such as diabetes and obesity, and behavioral health issues such as substance use disorders and depression. This courses emphasizes the medical sequelae commonly associated with behavioral health diagnoses and psychotropic medications. There are special sections on primary care psychopharmacology and prescription drug abuse.

    Instructor

    hybrid certificate program

    Sessions

    • 4-8-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-22-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-20-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-15-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-13-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-8-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-1-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 4-15-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 4-10-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 2-28-2024 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
    • 4-1-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-25-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-20-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-13-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-11-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-6-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-4-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

    CE Contact Hours

    • 2 ethics live interactive online
    • 2 pain management live interactive online
    • 22 regular asynchronous online
    • 29 regular live interactive online

    Location

    online

    Fees

    $1,600.00
  2. Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care | Pediatric Health Track

    Introduction to Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care - In this module, participants will learn about the nature and implications of integrated care, and will become fluent in the key terms that have come to describe it. Topics will include key public policies affecting the integrated care movement, including the Affordable Care Act; successful models of integrated care; population health management and health disparities; and ethical challenges and opportunities in integrated care. The transition to integrated care will be framed as a paradigm shift from disease-oriented to recovery-oriented service delivery, resulting in new opportunities and challenges, and direct implications for consumers and their families.

    Integrated Health Systems and Implementation - In this module, participants will obtain knowledge and skills related to the implementation of integrated care services. Implementation of integrated team-based collaborative care presents challenges and opportunities for providers and managers, with significant implications for access to care and patient satisfaction. Topics include basics of integrated health implementation; telepsychiatric consultation; culturally responsive practice; Patient Centered Medical Home recognition; oral health for collaborative care; and provider mindfulness and self-care.

    Foundations of Pediatric Integrated Health Care
    Although "pediatrics" describes the age range from birth through 18 years of age, children develop through a number of distinct developmental, psychological, and social stages. The Pediatric track explores how to address the most common issues of these stages using a pediatric integrated health model of care. Topics include an introduction to the model, the role of the pediatric behavioral health consultant, pediatric social determinants of health, and interventions in the medical setting.

    Pediatric Interventions - As the health care system is transformed from non-integrated to integrated, many services and interventions can be provided directly to the pediatric population as well as their parents in the medical clinic. Although many clinicians know typical child and adolescent diagnoses from a clinical perspective, this module helps participants develop an integrated understanding of typical topics that may present in the medical setting. Topics include ADHD, pediatric asthma, DD-autism, anxiety, depression, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences.

    Adolescence - Many adolescents are required to attend at least one physician appointment a year, presenting an annual opportunity to engage them in management of their own health care and in the detection and early intervention of risky behaviors which can have lifelong consequences. Adolescents can be best engaged in self-management when their unique social, developmental, physical and psychological needs are considered. Topics include adolescent-centered medical homes, adolescent sexual health, substance abuse, suicide, eating disorders, and school-based health centers.

    Instructor

    hybrid certificate program

    Sessions

    • 2-28-2024 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
    • 3-4-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-6-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-13-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-20-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 4-10-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-1-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-8-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-13-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-15-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-20-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-22-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

    CE Contact Hours

    • 2 ethics live interactive online
    • 14 regular asynchronous online
    • 21 regular live interactive online

    Location

    online

    Fees

    $1,275.00
  3. Certificate in Integrated Health in Schools

    Participants in the Schools track will benefit from a dynamic learning experience. Through live lectures and interactive sessions, participants will enhance their knowledge and skills in various areas:

    Model Conceptualization: Gain a deep understanding of how to conceptualize integrated wellness models.

    MTSS Framework: Explore a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), a proactive and preventative framework, originally derived from the public health and disease control model, and understand its application in schools.

    Holistic Student Needs: Discover strategies for addressing the holistic needs of students, recognizing that their well-being encompasses more than academics.

    Interdisciplinary Team-based Care: Develop the skills to foster interdisciplinary teams with a shared vision, with the administrator as the guiding force. Learn to build a collaborative team approach to student care, both within the school community and in coordination with external partners.

    From Theory to Practice: Transition seamlessly from theory to practical application.

    Policy Landscape & Funding Models: Explore state and federal policies including funding models that support school-based integrated whole healthcare.

    Real Case Examples: Gain insights from real-life case examples of schools successfully implementing team-based care and collaborative workflows.

    Resources: Receive practical resources (e.g., toolkits, templates, etc.) to empower school staff and their community collaborators in their role.

    Instructor

    hybrid certificate program

    Sessions

    • 2-28-2024 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
    • 3-4-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-6-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-19-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 3-26-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 4-2-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 4-16-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-7-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-13-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-15-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-20-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
    • 5-22-2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

    CE Contact Hours

    • 2 ethics live interactive online
    • 14 regular asynchronous online
    • 21 regular live interactive online

    Location

    online

    Fees

    $1,275.00
  4. Building Efficient Meetings and Producing Effective Decisions: Achieve Twice as Much in Half the Time

    This session shares results from the Meetings Masters/Decision Maestros Research Project intended to help social workers conduct more effective meetings. The first part of the session highlights practices from Meeting Masters, including the Menu Agenda, and the Agenda Bell. Principles of the Meeting Masters help social workers in the four phases of meeting - preplanning, facilitating/running the meeting itself, processing items for the next meeting, and follow up and implementation of decisions and actions. The second portion reviews several examples of "decision rottenosity" and outlines the process of decision crystallization.

    Instructor

    webinar (synchronous interactive)

    Sessions

    • 3/7/2024 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

    CE Contact Hours

    • 3 regular live interactive online

    Location

    online

    Fees

    $69.00
  5. USHERS: Understanding the Role of the Therapist in Transition-Related Care for Transgender and Nonbinary Populations

    Mental health professionals are often taught a wide variety of clinical skills while in training and experience an array of situations in which they are able to apply and adapt their skillsets depending on what is needed for their clients. One area that has a profound need for these clinical skills are transgender & nonbinary individuals who are seeking medical interventions to alleviate gender-related distress. These clients in particular may come to therapy for short-term or long-term services, and face significant barriers to accessing hormonal or surgical interventions due to outdated beliefs, biases, and misinformation about what is necessary to approve them for care. Furthermore, therapists have historically not been provided necessary information to tailor their assessment skills to advocate for clients to access transition-related medical care, or face their own outdated beliefs & biases about providing support to these clients.

    This training workshop is designed to educate mental health professionals about the history and present-day applications of gender-affirming healthcare in the United States, as well as empower professionals to apply existing assessment and report-writing skills to contexts with gender-diverse populations (namely, transgender & nonbinary populations). Participants will be come familiar with clinical considerations when writing letters of support for clients accessing gender-affirming hormones or surgery, applying the diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria to a client, and recognizing the overlapping symptom manifestation of Gender Dysphoria with other mental health diagnoses. Participants will participate in a workshop and engage with the provided material to become familiar with their role as mental health professionals to support gender-diverse populations by following and applying up-to-date standards for letters of support, based on the most updated version of the WPATH Standards of Care. This workshop is intended for practitioners who have a foundational and functional understanding of common experiences & identities within the LGBTQIA2S+ community, particularly those of transgender, nonbinary, and other gender-expansive individuals.

    Instructor

    • Brodie Lobb
    webinar (synchronous interactive)

    Sessions

    • 3-22-2024 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET

    CE Contact Hours

    • 1 ethics live interactive online
    • 5 regular live interactive online

    Location

    online

    Fees

    $129.00
  6. Addictions Certificate Program | Track 1: Addictions Treatment Foundational Skills

    It is understandable that individuals struggling with substance abuse problems are often highly ambivalent about engaging and committing to treatment and recovery, especially upon initial contact with a helping professional. The skills of engagement and enhancement of client motivation are thus critical for anyone seeking to effectively assist substance-involved populations. Additional understanding of and ability to appropriately assess individuals according to whole-person frameworks is also important. This set of learning session will focus on these foundational knowledge and skill areas, as well as touching on broad, well-established treatment approaches for successfully addressing addictive disorders.

    Course reviewed 5/18/2021
    hybrid certificate program

    Sessions

    • self-paced

    CE Contact Hours

    • 6 ethics asynchronous online
    • 22.5 regular asynchronous online
    • 1.5 regular live interactive online

    Skill Level

    Beginner

    Location

    online
  7. Addictions Certificate Program | Track 2: Addictions Treatment Processes & Clinical Interventions

    Successful treatment of addictive disorders typically includes various elements and processes that the effective practitioner needs to not only know about, but also to know how best to invoke those treatment elements in a manner that will be the best fit for each individual service recipient. Additionally, there are time-tested, evidence-based therapies with proven positive outcomes that practitioners would benefit from knowing about, either for direct provision or for the purposes of informing referrals. This set of sessions will focus on these learning targets, as well as equipping participants with the professional ethics knowledge and perspectives necessary for working with substance-involved populations.

    Course reviewed 5/18/2021
    hybrid certificate program

    Sessions

    • self-paced

    CE Contact Hours

    • 28.5 regular asynchronous online
    • 1.5 regular live interactive online

    Skill Level

    Beginner

    Location

    online
  8. Addictions Certificate Program | Track 3: Addictions Treatment with Complex & Comorbid Populations

    As behavioral healthcare service delivery has become increasingly concerned with effective treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, integrated care models, and dual-diagnosis-informed interventions have emerged and become well- established. The more recent acknowledgement of the importance of further integration with physical healthcare treatment services is also highly pertinent to successful and sustainable treatment of substance-involved populations. This set of learning sessions will focus on addictions treatment with individuals having complex and comorbid circumstances and conditions, including mental health, physical health, criminal justice, and trauma issues.

    Course reviewed 5/18/2021
    hybrid certificate program

    Sessions

    • self-paced

    CE Contact Hours

    • 28.5 regular asynchronous online
    • 1.5 regular live interactive online

    Skill Level

    Beginner

    Location

    online
  9. CBT for Chronic Pain: Getting Unstuck with DBT Skills

    This is a 2-hour self-paced online webinar discussing the use of DBT skills during CBT for Chronic Pain. The CBT-CP in this webinar is based on the Veterans Affairs Hospital developed CBT-CP. The manual can be found free online at: https://www.va.gov/PAINMANAGEMENT/docs/CBT-CP_Therapist_Manual.pdf#

    CBT-CP has been found to be effective for decreasing catastrophizing, pain interference, pain intensity, and depression scores. Although CBT-CP is an evidence-based treatment, there are times in which a clinician and client may feel stuck. Thus, this presentation discussed Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies that may be usefully employed during the course of CBT-CP.

    Course created 2/4/2022

    Instructor

    webinar (asynchronous)

    CE Contact Hours

    • 2 pain management asynchronous online

    Skill Level

    Intermediate

    Location

    online
  10. Certificate in Political Social Work

    The Certificate in Political Social Work is designed for all social workers, regardless of area of primary practice, to fulfill their ethical obligation to engage in social and political action. Participants of this certificate program will learn how politics impacts the lives of those that they serve on both a micro and macro level, practice skills for advocating to policymakers, gain tools to empower clients to become politically engaged, and explore opportunities for running for office.

    Foundations of Political Social Work: This module will include the historical and current role of social workers in the political process as well as knowledge that is core to political social work practice. Topics include: emerging political social work research and theory, political justice, ethics in political social work, and foundational skills in communicating political information.

    Tools for Political Social Work: This module will cover skills and strategies that social workers can apply to their current practice as well as tools to enhance their political engagement. Topics include: identifying and combating fake news, advocacy and activism, and running campaigns.

    Special Knowledge Areas for Political Social Work: This module covers important topic areas social workers should be familiar with when engaging in political social work practice, including organized labor and immigration. This module is intended to be responsive to emerging political topics relevant to social work.

    Course updated 5/20/2021
    hybrid certificate program

    Sessions

    • self-paced

    CE Contact Hours

    • 1 ethics asynchronous online
    • 26 regular asynchronous online
    • 1 regular live interactive online

    Skill Level

    Beginner

    Location

    online

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